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The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.
